Lab Director
Eric Diller, Ph.D., P.Eng.
- Dean’s Catalyst Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- PhD Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
- BS & MS, Case Western Reserve University, U.S.A.
- Dr. Diller has led the Microrobotics Lab since 2014. His work is on micro-scale robotics and bio-inspired novel locomotion systems, and features fabrication and control relating to remote actuation of micro-scale devices using magnetic fields, micro-scale robotic manipulation, and smart materials.
- Dr. Diller is the recipient of the MIE Department Early Career Teaching Award, the UofT Connaught New Researcher Award, the Ontario Early Researcher Award, the I.W. Smith Award from the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineers, and the Dean’s Catalyst Professorship from the UofT Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Peyman Shokrollahi, Ph.D.
- Ph.D. in Biomedical Eng. from the Univ. of Toronto in 2017
- MASc in Electrical and Computer Eng. from Ryerson Univ., in 2009
- BS in Electrical and Electronics Eng. from Shiraz Univ., Shiraz, Iran in 2001
- From 2007 to 2009, he worked at Sunnybrook Hospital on sleep data analysis, investigating the effect of medications on sleep and developing software for the detection of eye movements recorded from patients during sleep. From 2012 to 2017, he was a researcher at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto developing surgical robots for pediatric bone biopsies. His research focused on developing MRI-compatible sensors and actuators.
Graduate Student Researchers
Mohammad Salehizadeh
Onaizah Onaizah
Sajad Salmanipour
- PhD student (starting from Sept. 2015)
Cameron Forbrigger
- PhD student (starting from Jan. 2018), Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Univ. of Toronto
- Master of Applied Science, Dalhousie Univ. (2015-17), studied mechatronics and robotics with applications in abrasive manufacturing
- Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Dalhousie Univ. (2011-15)
Priscilla Lai
Shenr
ui Pan
Tianqi Xu
- MASc student (starting from Sept. 2016)
Omid Youssefi
Adam Schonewille
- MASc student (starting from Sept. 2018)
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
- Bachelors of Applied Science in Engineering Physics (2013-2018), University of British Columbia
Mihai Nica
- MASc student (starting from Sept. 2018)
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
- Bachelors of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering (2013-2017), Concordia University
Sagar Jaiswal
- MASc student (starting from Sept. 2018)
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
- Bachelors of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering (2015-2018), Southampton University
Andrew Lim
Saba Sabetian
Research Assistants
Zhaoxin (Jason) Li
Alumni
Dr. J
iachen Zhang
Alexandre Poersch
- Undergraduate Student University of Manitoba
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Gurtej Bhasin
- BASc Student, University of Toronto
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Ernest Lau
- Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Seifeldin Hassan
- Undergraduate student at UofT
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Jessica Campos
- International Undergraduate Student under Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Program (starting from May 2017)
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tec de Monterrey, Mexico
Patrick Ryan
Zhe Li
Daniel Franca
- International Undergraduate Student from Brazil (starting from May 2016)
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais – PUCMG
- Daniel Franca Resume
Vishal Gupta
- International undergraduate student from India (starting from May 2016) under Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Program
- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India
Ahmed Ujjainwala
Piyush Jain
- Mitacs Globalink, Research Intern
- Senior undergraduate in dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Joe Ajoy
- Grade 11, Co-op Student
- Michael Power St. Joseph
Xian Wang
- Exchange Undergraduate Student
- BS, Tianjin University, China
- Currently works as an graduate student in AMNL Lab, dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto.
Hweedo Chang
